Chapter 57: Holy Spirit Heart Method
With the help of a large amount of reference material, Zhang Peng redesigned a Meditation Method for Chen Ming.
The core of this Meditation Method was based on ancient concepts. It borrowed from the Angel Meditation Method to use one's own Spirit to restrain the circulation of spirit power, and referenced the Mysterious Heaven Skill to use the Meridians as the pathways through which spirit power flowed.
Because the 2 extraordinary meridians, one horizontal and one vertical, helped gather and coordinate the horizontal and vertical flow of spirit power, the cultivation speed of this Meditation Method was roughly the same as that of a normal Meditation Method, but its efficiency was 1.5 times higher. In addition to increasing spirit power and refining energy, it could also slightly strengthen mental force as well as Qi and blood.
At first glance, the difference in efficiency compared to the Scorpion Tiger Meditation Technique did not seem very great, and the overall improvement did not look especially dramatic. However, the real advantage of this Meditation Method was its stability and adaptability. Based on this model, one could continuously rebuild a new circulation architecture.
Even Chen Ming himself could gradually adjust and alter the underlying structure while cultivating, further increasing his cultivation efficiency or adding certain new characteristics.
As Chen Ming continued to open more Meridians and deepen his understanding of internal circulation, this Meditation Method could also be improved little by little, with its efficiency rising through constant upgrades.
Of course, this was far from infinite upgrading in the true sense. After all, Chen Ming still had to personally make those changes bit by bit. It was just that, compared to the conventional Meditation Methods on the continent that relied only on the Twelve Primary Meridians, this Meditation Method tailored specifically for Chen Ming simply possessed higher potential and efficiency.
The only drawback was that, because it had become far more complex, it was difficult to learn, difficult to modify, and even harder to fully master than an ordinary Meditation Method. It could be considered a technique with an extremely high barrier to entry.
However, as cultivation deepened and he gradually grew familiar with the structure, the speed of cultivation would only become faster and faster.
Overall, although this was a Meditation Method created by a Super Douluo who was a semi Evil Soul Master, after drawing upon many Meditation Methods and inheritances of the Holy Spirit Cult to build something for a Disciple who was also a semi Evil Soul Master, the philosophy at its core was almost completely opposite to the normal cultivation methods and Meditation Methods of the Holy Spirit Cult.
Although Zhang Peng himself had not realized it, Chen Ming could vaguely sense that this Meditation Method, which gathered the strengths of many schools, was fundamentally taking the path of a Daoist heart cultivation method.
It emphasized accumulating power to seek a breakthrough. The farther one went, the deeper the cultivation became, and the faster the cultivation speed would actually be. One could say it had thoroughly grasped a large part of the essence of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
For ordinary people, the slow start would indeed be a serious problem. But for someone like Chen Ming, who possessed the power of devouring, that was not an issue. With the support of his own ability, he could quickly skip the early accumulation stage and rapidly enter a positive cycle.
Added together, it was the speed of the Demonic Path in the early stages and the speed of the Dao in the later stages.
Although Chen Ming did not know how this special Meditation Method compared to the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill, compared to the top tier Meditation Methods on the continent, this new method that gathered the strengths of many schools was clearly half a level higher. And as more Meridians inside his body were opened and the structure continued to be refined, this Meditation Method would only grow stronger.
"Teacher, what name do you want to give this Meditation Method?" Chen Ming asked, yawning heavily as he looked at the mountain of draft paper in front of him. Dark circles hung beneath his eyes, and he looked thoroughly exhausted.
"How about... Scorpion Evil Meditation Method?" As someone truly terrible at naming things, Zhang Peng took one word from the name of his own Spirit and one from Chen Ming's Spirit, then offered the name tentatively. But the moment he said it, even he could no longer keep a straight face.
"Forget it. You should name this Meditation Method yourself. Although I built the underlying logic, once you continue improving it in the future, that logic will inevitably be changed again. I will not be able to help you much after that, so you should be the one to name it."
"In that case, how about calling it the Holy Spirit Heart Method?" Chen Ming thought for a moment before speaking. "It gathers the strengths of many schools, takes the knowledge and philosophy of the Holy Spirit Cult as its core, and then transcends the ordinary to become sacred. Since it is like that, we might as well use the same name as the Holy Spirit Cult and call it the Holy Spirit Heart Method."
"Holy Spirit Heart Method? That works. It does sound quite fitting."
Zhang Peng thought about it for a moment and felt the name was indeed good. Although he vaguely felt as if he had heard something similar somewhere before, after thinking for a long while and still failing to recall it, he simply gave up.
During the process of creating this new Meditation Method, Zhang Peng had discovered something extremely important.
That was, although his Disciple had only been a Spirit Master for a short period of time, Chen Ming's understanding of the Meridians and the human body was astonishingly outstanding, especially when it came to the extraordinary meridians hidden within the body.
Zhang Peng was certain that this did not come from any philosophy currently circulating on the continent. He was also certain that Chen Ming really was just an ordinary person from a small village who had luckily awakened an Evil Martial Soul.
This way of thinking and this understanding of spirit power, even among Evil Soul Masters, could be considered highly unorthodox. It was nothing like the way a normal Spirit Master should think.
And it was precisely because of this that, the more Zhang Peng watched Chen Ming speak about Meridians and cultivation in ways that even he found extremely enlightening, the more complicated and wonderful Zhang Peng's feelings became.
The reason Chen Ming's name was not included in the title of the Meditation Method was that, throughout the entire creation process, Zhang Peng had contributed about 60 percent of the work, while the remaining 40 percent came from Chen Ming.
Even the optimization logic behind the spirit power circulation routes of this Meditation Method had been proposed by Chen Ming. Zhang Peng had merely combined that logic with his own cultivation experience and insights, then fleshed it out and stabilized it.
Zhang Peng had lived for more than 100 years and boasted that there was no type of Genius he had not seen before. He had even fought Mu En, once known as the number one Genius of the Douluo Continent in a thousand years, although he had been beaten badly. But precisely because of that, he was also the type of Spirit Master with extremely deep experience.
Yet when it came to Chen Ming, Zhang Peng could only answer with silence.
For the first time, he truly understood what it meant for some people to be born with a talent that ordinary people simply could not comprehend.
To put it plainly, Zhang Peng felt that if he replaced himself with any other Super Douluo, they could probably still piece together this Meditation Method eventually. But if Chen Ming were replaced with someone else of the same level and then paired with a Super Douluo like him for discussion, then this Meditation Method would never have been born at all.
If he himself had possessed such talent for exploring the inner Meridians when he was young, then he would not be "merely" a Rank 96 Super Douluo today.
"Xiao Ming, in your current state, it is unlikely that you can continue opening other Meridians. We also have not yet found the rest of them, so let us wait until after Rank 30 to try again."
"For now, cultivate for a few days first. I will go search for information suitable for your 2nd spirit ring."
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